9-day Essential Costa Rica

Our Most Popular Costa Rica Student Trip!

This Costa Rica student trip is designed especially for teachers looking for an itinerary packed with a variety of educational activities and opportunities to interact with the local people and communities. Your group gets to choose from several of EcoTeach’s cultural and educational experiences. Assist a leatherback turtle as she lays her eggs, interact with local schoolchildren, relax on a beautiful white sand beach, visit an indigenous community, spend a night or two with a local Costa Rican family, work side by side with members of a sustainable community or hike through the cloud forest.

The Highlights:

A customizable itinerary designed for teachers planning a Costa Rica student trip.

Help protect endangered sea turtles at a turtle conservation station on the Caribbean Coast.

Walk the beaches in search of nesting leatherback turtles, have a chance to collect eggs and relocate to a safe hatchery.

The cloud forest is home to an astonishing array of biological diversity and is teeming with life. Stay in the community of Providencia and choose from a variety of different locally organized activities like artisan workshops and sugarcane processing.

Spend two nights on a small family farm and have a chance to plant pineapples, work in the butterfly garden, go birding or learn how to make chocolate.

Spend the night with a local family and participate in the community’s reforestation efforts.

Relax on a perfect white sand beach and swim in the warm Caribbean ocean.

Make this Costa Rica student trip uniquely yours as you choose from a variety of places to travel and things to do!

Trip Details

Where: Costa Rica

Trip Length: 9 day / 8 night

Available Trip Dates: Year round (turtle work only available March through July)